Market Leader Surpasses 200 Million Embedded SerDes Channels Shipped
SAN JOSE, Calif. & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2011--
Avago Technologies (Nasdaq: AVGO),
a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications,
industrial and consumer applications, today announced that its 28-Gbps
Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) core has demonstrated compliance with
the Common Electrical Interface (CEI) standard for 28G Very Short Reach
(VSR). Achieving CEI-28G-VSR compliance brings the high-bandwidth,
low-power SerDes to a broader range of data networking applications.
The company also announced it has shipped over 200 million embedded
SerDes channels integrated in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
(ASICs) used for data communication in networking, computing and storage
applications. The CEI-28G-VSR compliance and the shipping milestone
reflect the growing demand for increased bandwidth for servers, routers
and other data center equipment.
“Data center equipment designers are focused on increasing bandwidth to
meet the demands of cloud computing and virtualization, but power
consumption is always a key as well,” said Frank Ostojic, vice president
and general manager of the ASIC Products Division at Avago. “With 28G
VSR compliance, our SerDes cores can better help our customers address
these challenges for their next-generation networking equipment, which
in turn will help Avago to continue setting new SerDes capability
milestones.”
Avago Intellectual Property (IP) SerDes cores can be easily integrated
due to their modular, multirate architecture, and Avago has integrated
over 400 SerDes channels on a single ASIC. The Avago SerDes cores
feature a unique decision feedback equalization (DFE) architecture,
resulting in a number of key performance differentiators such as low
overall power, best-in-class data latency, and best-in-class jitter and
crosstalk tolerance.
Avago has an established history of delivering on-time, reliable,
high-performance ASICs. Three decades of design experience, state-of-the
art hierarchical design methodology, and an IP portfolio covering
multiple standards form the company’s foundation for supplying complex
ASICs to the wired communications market. The broad Avago SerDes
portfolio supports a wide range of standards such as PCI Express, Fibre
Channel, XAUI, CEI, 10GBASE-KR and SFI, providing the flexibility to
address optical, copper and backplane applications.
About Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies is a leading supplier of analog interface components
for communications, industrial and consumer applications. By leveraging
its core competencies in III-V compound and silicon semiconductor design
and processing, the company provides an extensive range of analog, mixed
signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems to approximately
40,000 end customers. Backed by strong customer service support, the
company's products serve four diverse end markets: wireless
communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive
electronics, and consumer and computing peripherals. Avago has a global
employee presence and heritage of technical innovation dating back
nearly 50 years to its Hewlett-Packard roots. Information about Avago is
available on the Web at www.avagotech.com.
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